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Regents Exam Prep Center: Introduction to u.s. Government
Explore the ideas and principles of American government including its influences, foundation, and basic tenets (such as checks and balances and federalism).
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Regents Exam Prep Center: The Series Circuit
Explains how a series circuit works, accompanied by an animation. Lists the rules and formulas that apply to a series circuit.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Venn Diagrams
Four examples (with increasing difficulty) of Venn diagrams are given. Solutions are provided along with explanations and diagrams showing how the answers were derived.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Organizing and Venn Diagrams With Congruent Triangles
As a resource for teachers, an activity of how to connect Venn Diagrams with the five methods of proving triangles congruent - SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, HL - is explained.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Signed Numbers
This tutorial on signed numbers features lesson plans, practice pages, examples, application problems, and interactive work. Teacher resources include overhead manipulatives, card games, a Bingo game, and graphing calculator downloads.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Order of Operations and Evaluating Expressions
Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. This sentence takes on greater meaning when young scholars realize it will assist them in remembering the all-important order of mathematical operations. A lesson plan, several interactive practice...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Operations With Radicals
The rules for how to simplify radicals and how to perform the operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing radicals are explained. A multiple-choice interactive quiz is provided for the students to test their knowledge of...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebraic Fractions
Fractions containing variables can challenge students--and for teachers to teach. Here are explanations of what algebraic fractions are, how they might be simplified, how they are multiplied, divided, added, and subtracted.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Mutually Exclusive & Independent Events
The somewhat tricky differences between mutually exclusive, non-mutually exclusive, independent, and dependent events are defined here. Common items such as coins, colored cubes, and a deck of cards are all part of the easy-to-understand...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Fractional Exponents
Oswego City School District provides the rules for working with fractional (rational) exponents.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle
Two hands-on lab activities for instructors to use when teaching about the coordinate graphs of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions derived from a unit circle. The graphs of the reciprocals of the three functions are investigated....
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of a Triangle and Parallelogram Using Trig
How can trigonometry be used to find the area of a triangle or parallelogram? Does the triangle need to be a right triangle, and how accurate can the results possibly be? The answers to these questions are found here along with several...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Algebra 2: Definition of Inverse Function
An introductory look at the definition of an inverse function, the notation used for inverse functions, and tests used to determine whether a function will have an inverse. Several examples are provided for the student to scroll through...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Radical Equations
A thorough look at radical equations and how to solve them, including examples of several of the trickier types of problems and several of the common mistakes students make while solving them. Two interactive quizzes are provided for the...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: An Intuitive Notion of Dilation
This site offers a very basic discussion of dilations. It explains what a scaling factor is and provides illustrations.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Styles of Proof
Find out the general form for two column proofs, flow proofs, and paragraph proofs here. The site is very brief and discusses each type of proof using the same example.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Bisect a Line Segment and an Angle
This step-by-step tutorial teaches students how to construct a bisector of a segment and the bisector of an angle.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Copy a Line Segment and an Angle
This site provides a step-by-step method to construct congruent segments and angles with a straight edge and compass.
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Regents Test Prep Center Perpendiculars
This step-by-step method teaches students to construct a perpendicular to a line through a point on--or off--the initial line using compass and straight edge.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Intuitive Notion of Point Symmetry
This intuitive explanation shows how to determine if an object has point symmetry. The site offers examples of objects with point symmetry.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Point Symmetry
Fun graphics and realistic problems in point symmetry for students to solve and check.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Negation: Not
Use this website to help you hone your critical thinking and math-problem solving skills. Learn what "Negation," is and how it applies when you are working on mathematical problems and sentences.
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Irrational Approximations
Providing one lesson, one practice exercise, and two teacher resources, the information at this website is geared toward students who already understand rational and irrational numbers. The lesson has explanations of what happens when a...
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Regents Exam Prep Center: Homeostasis Introduction
Provides an easy to understand overview of the Biochemical processes, disease, and feedback mechanisms of homeostasis.